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Skills and Competencies for Community Regeneration: Needs analysis and framework

Introduction

This report, commissioned by Communities Scotland, is a tool for people to assess their own learning needs, individually or in partnerships.

Description

Research report seeking to establish a framework setting out the skills and competencies required for effective community regeneration, and to assess skill gaps and existing learning mechanisms.

Background information

The Scottish Centre for Regeneration needed to plan how to implement a plan to improve the skills and capabilities of practitioners and community members to work effectively in community regeneration. A framework was needed to help identify the range of skills such people require and to assist in identifying particular skills gaps.

Methodology

Research methods included:

updating previous literature reviews and surveys of training providers;
interviews and a focus group with national organisations;
a central aim was to provide solid evidence base for a skills framework through a survey;
a postal survey, followed by telephone interviews and focus groups, was carried out in five local authority areas.

Conclusions

Findings:

wide diversity of occupational and professional backgrounds are brought to community regeneration;
accessing learning methods;
relevance of formal training;
level of formal training in regeneration available;
work-based learning opportunities;
positive response to the idea of a skills framework for community regeneration – strategic skills, process skills and practical skills.

Recommendations:

development of a skills framework for success in regeneration;
improvements to the range of training and learning methods available;
emphasis on experiential learning and learning from other’s experience;
all regeneration initiatives should carry out reviews of skills available.

Contact info

Scottish Centre for Regeneration
scr@communitiesscotland.gsi.gov.uk

Publication date

Project finished

//2004

Researcher

Peter Taylor, Ivan Turok, Duncan Kirkpatrick and Adam Rosengard, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow

Links

Visit the Scottish Centre for Regeneration website

Download the 'Skills and Competencies for Community Regeneration' Report (PDF, Eng, 584 KB)

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy > Social inclusion & integration > Community development

Keywords

Capacity building